Jeremiah 5:25
Your transgressions have turned away these things, and your sins have removed good things from you.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 59:2Nay, your iniquities separate between you and God, and because of your sins has he turned away his face from you, so as not to have mercy upon you.
Jeremiah 3:3And thou didst retain many shepherds for a stumbling block to thyself: thou hadst a whore’s face, thou didst become shameless toward all.
Jeremiah 14:7Our sins have risen up against us: O Lord, do thou for us for thine own sake; for our sins are many before thee; for we have sinned against thee.
Lamentations 4:22O daughter of Zion, thine iniquity has come to an end; 1 He shall no more carry thee captive: 1 He has visited thine iniquities, O daughter of Edom; 1 He has discovered thy sins.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 5:21-25
Expostulation with Israel. ( b. c. 608.) 20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, 21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: 22 Fear ye not me? saith the Lord : will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass… Read the whole commentary →